What great news huh? The Atlanta Falcons are so bad that the Birds have cleverly positioned themselves to possibly earn the No. 2 overall pick in next spring’s NFL draft. In plain English, that means that Atlanta could be the second worst team in all of pro football.

Who’s the top college football coach after this wacky season? Lots of candidates - Randy Edsall at UConn, hate to admit it but Al Groh at Virginia, Dennis Erikson at Arizona State, Bronco Mendenhall at BYU (gotta love his name), Mark Mangino at Kansas, Gary Pinkel at Missouri, and Sylvester Croom at Mississippi State. My vote goes to Mark Richt at Georgia. That’s not a homer vote. The Bulldogs were in a position to play for the mythical college championship in what was supposed to be a rebuilding year. Also consider the Dawgs had only one player named on the All-SEC first team (Knowshon Moreno).

Not to beat a dead horse, but I just can’t stand it. It’s a crime that Ohio State is ranked No. 1 and is playing in the mythical title game. The Buckeyes were rewarded for basically nothing. They played only two ranked teams during the year and lost to one of those (Illinois). Check out their schedule - Youngstown State, Akron and Kent State. (I swear I’m not making that up).

If you having a problem keeping up with all the college football coaching changes, there have been a total of 15 at this time and only four of the jobs have been filled. This has got to be like Christmas to coaches like Navy’s Paul Johnson, Auburn assistant Will Muschamp and Tennessee assistant David Cutcliffe.

One aside about Paul Johnson interviewing with Georgia Tech. If Yellow Jacket athletics director Dan Radakovich is serious about wanting to insert some pazaaz and excitement in the football front office, Johnson probably isn’t his man. Johnson’s coaching credentials speak well of his abilities, but he’s as dry as Casper Milktoast and has the personality of, well, Chan Gailey.

The Association of American Retired People (AARP) has announced that tennis legend Martina Navratilova will be the ambassadress for Health and Fitness for one of the world’s largest lobbying organizations.

And finally, USA Today ran a Cost-Per-Win chart for Division I head coaches. The most expensive was Tim Brewster at Minnesota, who was paid $1 million and had one victory. The best deal was Gregg Brandon at Bowling Green who makes $183,000 and had eight wins - worth $22,989 per win. And yes, Alabama’s Nick Saban was the second worst, with six wins on a base salary of $3.5 million, or a cost of $583.867 per success.